Definition of Annual

1. Noun. (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year.

Generic synonyms: Flora, Plant, Plant Life
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology

2. Adjective. Completing its life cycle within a year. "A border of annual flowering plants"
Exact synonyms: One-year
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Antonyms: Biennial, Perennial

3. Noun. A reference book that is published regularly once every year.
Exact synonyms: Yearbook, Yearly
Generic synonyms: Book Of Facts, Reference, Reference Book, Reference Work
Specialized synonyms: Almanac, Almanac, Farmer's Calendar, Ephemeris

4. Adjective. Occurring or payable every year. "Annual (or yearly) income"
Exact synonyms: Yearly
Similar to: Periodic, Periodical
Derivative terms: Year

Definition of Annual

1. a. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

2. n. A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.

Definition of Annual

1. Adjective. Happening once every year. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also (term circannual). ¹

3. Adjective. (botany) (of a plant) Having a life cycle that is completed in only one growing season; e.g. beans, corn, marigold. See ''Annual plant'' in Wikipedia. Compare (term biennial), (term perennial). ¹

4. Adjective. (entomology) Living or lasting just one season or year, as certain insects or insect colonies. ¹

5. Noun. An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication. ¹

6. Noun. (botany) An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare (term biennial), (term perennial). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Annual

1. a publication issued once a year [n -S]

Medical Definition of Annual

1. Describes a plant or other organism that completes its whole life cycle in one year Occuring yearly. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Annual

annoyances
annoyaunce
annoybot
annoybots
annoyed
annoyer
annoyers
annoyful
annoying
annoyingly
annoyingness
annoyous
annoys
anns
annual (current term)
annual fern
annual leave
annual parallax
annual report
annual reports
annual ring
annual salt-marsh aster
annualise
annualised
annualises
annualising
annualist
annualists
annualization

Literary usage of Annual

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"IN PREPARATION annual American Catalogue CUMULATED, 1900-1903 THE annual AMERICAN ... The annual ENGLISH CATALOGUE, for which we have the American market, ..."

2. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1896)
"The payment of thirty dollars shall constitute a Life Membership, and exempt the member from all future assessments, and any annual member, having paid all ..."

3. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1886)
"The SECRETARY then read the annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ... annual REPORT. The Council have much pleasure in again meeting the ..."

4. Proceedings (1881)
"=44= EIGHTH annual MEETING. BIRMINGHAM, July 7th, 8th, and 9th,. ... Since the last annual Meeting, which was held at Leeds at the end of May, five District ..."

5. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam ( Smith, Joseph Shield Nicholson (1895)
"It must be observed, however, that whatever may be the supposed annual importation of gold and silver, there must be a certain period at which the annual ..."

6. Handbook on American Mining Law by George Purcell Costigan (1908)
"annual LABOR PENDING PATENT PROCEEDINGS. 85. Until entry in patent proceedings annual labor must be kept up. After entry and until patent issues it is wise ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"The United States Forest Service estimates the present annual growth on our 326 million acres of burned and exploited forest at approximately 6 billion ..."

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